vegradd - yes! This hardware's fantastic, and the features that are present are great, but it desperately needs a few more things added.

A legato step/glide step function is essential. Shift+pad in SEQ is currently used for setting scale mode, playback options and timing divisions, but maybe Shift+Chan+pad would be good for this?

Hardware access to swing/gate also seems essential - not having it (and, as far as I can see, not even being able to automate it by MIDI CC from a DAW) really inhibits the Beatstep during performance, which is a shame because it's capable of this stuff!

Accent - I'm not quite so bothered about this, but it seems like having two preset levels of pad velocity would appeal to many people, especially X0X-type fanatics. So toggling on a pad might send a 110-velocity noteon, while a shift+[something] combo allows toggling of already-active pads that send an accented step at 127-velocity. Maybe a slightly different pad colour/intensity would signify which steps were accented.

As pleased as I am with the Beatstep, I'm surprised that none of these features have been implemented already - especially legato/glide step!

oh and really important : faster knob behavior in midi control mode. Actually it's really unusable as Mallard said.... five complete turn for a 100% send in reverb or delay aux for exemple ! Forget the "Live" dynamic effects in this state...

vegradd - yes! This hardware's fantastic, and the features that are present are great, but it desperately needs a few more things added.

A legato step/glide step function is essential. Shift+pad in SEQ is currently used for setting scale mode, playback options and timing divisions, but maybe Shift+Chan+pad would be good for this?

Hardware access to swing/gate also seems essential - not having it (and, as far as I can see, not even being able to automate it by MIDI CC from a DAW) really inhibits the Beatstep during performance, which is a shame because it's capable of this stuff!

Accent - I'm not quite so bothered about this, but it seems like having two preset levels of pad velocity would appeal to many people, especially X0X-type fanatics. So toggling on a pad might send a 110-velocity noteon, while a shift+[something] combo allows toggling of already-active pads that send an accented step at 127-velocity. Maybe a slightly different pad colour/intensity would signify which steps were accented.

As pleased as I am with the Beatstep, I'm surprised that none of these features have been implemented already - especially legato/glide step!

I don't have a Beatstep yet, but I would get one if you could play the pads like a keyboard, quantised to a selectable scale, and able to transpose up/down easily.As I understand correctly, now you can only assign fixed notes to a pad.the above would be awesome for live playing external hardware without missing a note.

There's a max4live plug, The Schwarzenator or something similar (by Henrik Schwarz) that does exactly that for any keyboard you like. It simply takes the incoming midi note and "quantize" it to the nearest correct note of the scale. Similar to what the BeatStep does in the scale mode / seq

I personally would love it if the pitch could be detached from any scale. If, for example, the 'USER' scale could have a 'Free' setting, so one could program microtonal pitch difference, especially when using CV this is excellent, but for MIDI this would be totally excellent as well. I find it a bit limiting to have to use tempered scales.

Then, something else that's been remarked already is that the sequence goes out of sync when the number of steps is altered or when time division is altered. This is rather bothersome, it would be cool if one could at least have the option to force this to some time grid. I mean, it's also really cool that it CAN go out of sync, and that you can use it to make it stutter, but then again, I have noticed that you have to hit the pads on an upbeat when changing step number. (Am I making myself clear here?)

Another thing that would come in handy, is if there was a way of jumping to the next octave, escpecially when playing the pads. I jammed with it in Live yesterday evening and found it somehow frustrating to have to use a 'midi pitch shifter' in Live to be able to play all the sounds of a drum kit, since it didn't seem possible from the Beatstep itself (or am i missing something here?)

As mentioned in a different topic, some implementation of Tap Tempo would be awesome...

There aslo a serious sync-problem, but I'll put that in different topic. (It syncs very badly when hooked to Live, there an unpredictable amount of Lag/Latency).